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Sometimes impossible things just happen, and we call them miracles. That seems to be a very prescient saying in the days since Doctor Who announced that former showrunner Russell T. Davies is returning to the TARDIS for Season 14. From Davies' impending return to the news that Sex Education
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After the BBC turned new Doctor Who casting announcements into media circuses in the past decade, Bad Wolf is making its new tenure felt right away. On Sunday, May 8, with little fanfare and no prior warning, the BBC Twitter account revealed showrunner Russell T. Davies chose Sex Education'
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On October 18, 1922, the British Broadcasting Corporation will turn 100 years old. As the world's oldest national broadcaster, and the largest broadcaster globally by the number of employees, the BBC is known worldwide. It is famously funded by a royal charter. It operates under an agreement with
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Coming into Doctor Who knowing that there's only one more episode until regeneration is always a surreal experience. Even though the franchise has promised the BBC centennial special will be feature-length, providing more than the usual 45-60 minute runtime to wrap up all the loose ends, it'
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The time of the Thirteenth Doctor is drawing to a close. But before Jodie Whittaker says goodbye to Doctor Who for good she's starring in a trio of feature-length specials prior to her regeneration. The first installment, "Eve of the Daleks," aired this past New Year&
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After the early years of the Doctor Who reboot, there has always been an awkward pause between its titular character's regenerations. Season 1 to Season 2 sidestepped having a gap because the show made no other changes initially. The news that the series was recasting Ninth Doctor Christopher
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When Russell T. Davies was announced in 2021 to be returning to Doctor Who as showrunner after a decade away from the franchise, it shocked the Whovian fandom. While some were less thrilled to perceive the franchise as going backward (or who weren't fans of Davies' first
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The changing of the guard at Doctor Who is not like the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. The latter is a many rehearsed seamless transition that's been going on for hundreds of years. The former never seems to be able to change over without awkward delay
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Not every episode of Doctor Who starts with killing the Doctor and all the guest stars in the first ten minutes, but after Doctor Who: Flux, one supposed clearing the decks would be a proper beginning. At least a clearing of the deck is supposedly happening when viewers rejoin the
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In its final season with Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor, Doctor Who has gone downright experimental. Season 13, known as Doctor Who: Flux, may have wound up a wild failure, but so are many experiments run on long-running series like this, and one cannot blame them for trying. With
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Doctor Who: Flux is over, but that doesn't mean Doctor Who is done with the Thirteenth Doctor just yet. There will be no full season in 2022, but there will be a series of specials as the show gears up to cast a replacement lead and transfer from
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In the end, Doctor Who's final regular-season episode of the 13th Doctor's time in the TARDIS ended now with a bang, but with a Multiple Doctors episode. It was a slightly different take on the already-done material, splitting the 13th Doctor into three instead of guest-starring